So if I go to the plex site (https://www.plex.tv), and log in, I see an old (cached ?) version of the media on my server - like 6 months old. There are 110 movies listed, not 243, for example. Similar story for live-tv.
If I go to my server directly (http://lyonesse.gornall.net:32400/web/) I can see all the up-to-date information, everything seems to be fine.
And if I then go to the plex site and log in there again, now it’s all fine as well. Is this expected ?
plex.tv is only a DNS broker.
If you’re seeing different results, it’s because you’re not on the same server.
A-ha!
It looks as though plex.tv thinks my account ought to redirect to the old server (from, you guessed it, several months ago). I can’t see how to change that, but I’ve just done a ‘systemctl disable plexmediaserver’ on the machine.
Does plex phone home or something ? That would make some sense of the ‘now it doesn’t work, now it does’ above…
Both servers are maintained by UUID.
Plex/Web, however, shows you the Friendly Name.
If both have the same friendly name, the overloaded name causes what you see.
Well, since I followed your ‘swoopy’ procedure for duplicating the server, it’s possible they even have the same UUID.
To be honest, I didn’t even realise the old machine was still running the server, so hopefully disabling that and just using the new one will prevent it from being an issue in the future 
If you use my procedure to clone the server, they will indeed have the same UUID & Friendly Name. That’s its purpose – to make a mirror copy backup.
Right - I suspected as much
So, assuming that one of them is now permanently disabled (which, as I said above, I thought was already the case), can I assume I ought not see this again ? Or will Plex/Web still get confused from time to time ?
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